Chicago Coordinated Entry System

Skilled Assessor Agreement

Skilled Assessors are qualified to engage people experiencing homelessness, observe symptoms that indicate an individual’s experience of a disabling condition, and administer the Standardized Housing Assessment including the Vulnerability Index.

All Skilled Assessors must be Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) users as the assessment and follow up housing and matches are will be conducted on the HMIS platform. Staff playing this role are expected to comply with the following objectives:

Category / Expectations
Confidentiality / Skilled Assessors have access to privileged information shared during the course of an assessment. Serving in this capacity requires maintaining the confidentiality of applicants, in line with HMIS data standards.
Frequency of Assessments / Enter at least two Standardized Housing Assessments each month via the CES Skilled Assessor Project.
Quality / No more than three assessments will be deemed incomplete per quarter. Skilled Assessors should e-mail to share when an assessment could not be fully completed in the initial session with the applicant.
All Chicago can use discretion about the quality of assessments after technical assistance has been offered.
Training / Participate in a minimum of two training sessions offered by CES lead entities per year for continuing professional development related to the process of assessing households and screening for disabilities.
Observed Disabilities / 75% of assessments have accurate information regarding observed disabilities when this is noted as a response on the completed assessment.

Skilled Assessor Agreement

I understand and agree to the role and expectations involved with serving as a Skilled Assessor. I understand that if I am not able to adhere to the expectations I will be removed from the Skilled Assessor Project. Once this has taken place I may contact All Chicago by e-mailing to explore next steps if I wish to regain access in the future.

At minimum, those removed from the project will be required to attend an additional Skilled Assessor training session.

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